[TowerTalk] please advise on terminated vee beam design

[Chris BONDE]

The best that I have read about for anything terminated is that a wire 
"radial"? "counterpoise"? be run from the terminating resistor line to 
ground, in the ground under the antenna wire to the grounding at the other 
end.  This completes the circuit without the loss in the ground.

Chris opr VE7HCB

At 07:17 AM 2001-11-03 -0800, dan hearn wrote:

>A friend, N5RM in north Texas built a beautiful array of sloping V beams
>which covered all directions. The center was at 200ft and the low ends
>came to 8 ft posts. A wire ran down each post to a large power
>terminating resistor and to ground rods. It sounds like a dream array,
>however he told  me it was not nearly as effective as he expected. He
>felt that it needed a ground screen beneath it.
>   My ARRL Antenna Book is 17th edition also. It mentions loss at the
>ground termination being a problem and suggests a radial system.
>
>73, Dan, N5AR
>
>Don Hall wrote:
> >
> > Con,
> >
> > I don't have a new one, but the 17th edition of the ARRL Antenna Book has a
> > discussion of the terminated sloping V on page 13-9. Suggest you look at
> > whatever edition you have.
> >
> > 73  Don  K5AQ
> >
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